An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

It is impossible to tell which of the two dispositions we find in men is more harmful in a republic, that which seeks to maintain an established position or that which has none but seeks to acquire it.

I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right.

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

It is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding, when it can hold men’s hearts by hopes, when it cannot by satisfaction.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.